Norway Forensic Board Approves Breivik Insanity Evaluation
Norway’s Board of Forensic Medicine approved a psychiatric evaluation that found mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik insane after killing 77 people in a July 22 bombing attack and a shooting spree.
“There are no significant comments on the evaluation,” the board, led by psychiatrist Karl Heinrik Melle, said in a one-sentence opinion released today by Oslo District Court.
The 243-page evaluation released last month concluded that Breivik suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, meaning the 32- year-old may be placed in compulsory psychiatric treatment, potentially for life, rather than prison. He still faces a trial in April to establish guilt.
Breivik has admitted to the July bombing of Oslo government offices and killing 69 people at a Labor Party youth camp south of the Norwegian capital. Breivik has said that he sought to inflict the “greatest possible loss” to the ruling Labor Party and railed in a manifesto posted on the Internet against “cultural Marxism” and “Islamization.”
-- Editors: Meera Bhatia, Jonas Bergman
To contact the reporter on this story: Josiane Kremer in Oslo at jkremer4@bloomberg.net
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